Door for automobiles.



, W. G. MINER. DOORIOR AUTOMOBILES. APPLICATION FILED 1330.4, 1911.

1,087,809., Patented Feb. '17, 1914.

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WILLIAM G. MINER, 0F CHATHAM, VIRGINIA.

DOOR FOR AUTOMOBILES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17, 1914.

Application flied December 4, 1911. Serial No. 663,947.

.doors with spring attachments as a means or aid for closing them.

M .invention is hereinafter described in detail and illustrated in theaccompanying drawing in whichv Figure. l 'is a side view of anautomobile body provided with horizontally sliding doors and attachmentsthereof according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sec ion on theline 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a v rtical section on the line 5-5 of Fig.2.

.he automobile body 1 is shown provided wit two doorways, each having arigid slidable door 2 for closing them; The rear door is shownclosedand. the other open. The doors are adapted to slide in pockets orchambers 3 formed in the bod 1, as. will be understood by reference toigs 2 and 3,

L and guides 4 are provided at top and bottcni as indicated 1n Fig. 3aThe doors are prov (led with a spring attachmentfor automaticallyclosing them and which also serves to hold them normally closed, oraiding in 1 closing them. A rod 5-see Figs. 2 and 3- is arrangedhorizontally and centrally in the pocket 3 and its ends are bent inwardA door 2 is adapted to slide alongside this rod, and a spiral spring 6operatively connects them; that is to say, one end of the spring iscoiled about the inner or rear end of the rod 5 and the other end isattached to the inner end of the door 2. In Fig. 2,

and by dotted lines as expanded. In other words, the normal contractionof the spring draws, or tends to draw, the door back into the pocket,and, when the door is drawn out and thereby closed, the spring isexpanded the, whole length of the rod 5. It will be noted that thespring is coiled about the inner portion of the rod which, as shown inFig. 2, projects beyond the door when the latter is fully open. It willbe noted that the arrangement of the rods 5 horizontally in the verticalmiddle of the pocket prevents it slides easily in either direction.

What I claim is An automobile body having a side pocket and a door whichis slidable therein, a rod fixed horizontally Within the pocket parallelto the door. the same extending from the outer end of the pocket inwardbeyond the door when the latter is fully open, and a spiral springcoiled on such inner extended portion of the rod, its endsbeingconnected with the door and rod respectively, as described.

WM. Gr. MINER.

Witnesses J. L. CARTER,

Jos. HUNT, Jr.

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and secured to the inner Wall of thepocket.

this spring isshown by full lines compressed,

the door binding at top and bottom, so that 1

